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Feminizing Grief: Victorian Women and the Appropriation of Mourning
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
The Victorians didn’t invent the culture of mourning. But they certainly codified how the culture of grief should be one largely shouldered and sustained by women. Mourning rules for women were characterized by restraint ...
Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
(2015)
hand and family obligations and personal ambition on the other. Relevant themes—such a child
oblation, the holy veil and enclosure, legal and illegal marriage—frame Marie and create a microhistory of
the world that she inhabited. Other historical...
World to Word: Nomenclature Systems of Color and Species
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
As the digitization of information accelerates, the push to encode our surrounding
numerically instead of linguistically increases. The role that language has traditionally
played in the nomenclature of an integrative ...